Hailey Baptiste shocks Stephens in the 1st round to battle vs Kasatkina at the Korea Open. HIGHLIGHTS – SEOUL RESULTS

KOREA OPEN - SEOUL DRAW AND RESULTS. Baptiste surprises Stephens to square off with Daria Kasatkina in the 2nd round

By
Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Hailey Baptiste vs. Sloane Stephens

Hailey Baptiste stuns Sloane Stephens 7-6(4) 6-2 in the 1st round in Seoul on Tuesday in what was an all-American contest. Baptiste will play against Daria Kasatkina in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes.

Baptiste
Seoul
Baptiste's Record

Baptiste added to her prize money $ 3,770 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 13,590 after this win. If she wins the next match, Hailey will add $ 11,320 to her earnings to get in total $ 24,910 in total.

Highlights Hailey Baptiste vs. Sloane Stephens Korea Open – Seoul

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Baptiste
Stephens
Hailey Baptiste
7-64 6-2
1h:37
Sloane Stephens
73
73
Total points
58
58
32
32
Winners
23
23
44%
44%
Ratio Winners
40%
40%
-- Serve --
7
7
Aces
0
0
3
3
Double Faults
2
2
57%
57%
1st in
66%
66%
82%
82%
1st won
56%
56%
32/39
32/39
1st won
23/41
23/41
47%
47%
2nd won
57%
57%
14/30
14/30
2nd won
12/21
12/21
-- Break Points --
3/4
3/4
Total
1/5
1/5
75%
75%
Won
20%
20%
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At the end of the match, Baptiste scored 73 points vs. Stephens’s 58.

Baptiste

Hailey served exceptionally well to win 82% of the points (32/39) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 47% points (14/30) on her second serve. Hailey was sharp when converting 75% of the break points that she procured (3/4).

Stephens

On the other side, Sloane was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Baptiste and Stephens is 1-0 for Hailey.

Draw and next match H2H: Hailey Baptiste vs. Daria Kasatkina – stats

Baptiste will fight against Kasatkina in the 2nd round.

There is no head to head record between Hailey Baptiste and Daria Kasatkina since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Hailey Baptiste Draw info

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
Baptiste HTML
BaptisteStephens
HTML
B
0
0
S
0
0

Baptiste was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Sloane Stephens in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Hailey refused to bow to come back to break Sloane in the 6th (3-3) game before winning the set (7-6).

Hailey converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th game (2-3 30-40 and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Stephens converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A) and the 7th game (3-3 40-A).

They played 91 points. It’s worth to point out that, Baptiste won this set even if she scored less points 1 than Sloane (45-46). Hailey surrendered 19 points on serve (32-19). Regarding the other side of the net, Sloane conceded 13 points on serve (27-13).

2nd Set -
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Not
0
0
0
0

Hailey in this set was too strong for Sloane and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking Sloane in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.

Hailey was unerring in converting all her break points in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40). On the other side, Sloane was unable to convert any of her 3 break points. She had 3 break points opportunities in the 6th game (2-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).

They played 40 points. Hailey was the winner of the set after clinching 14 points more than Sloane (27-13). Baptiste dropped 6 points on serve (18-6). In addition, on the other side, Stephens conceded 9 points on serve (7-9).

1st
Baptiste
Stephens
7-6
7
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
2
3
1
3
1
2
0
2
0
1
2nd
Baptiste
Stephens
6-2
6
2
5
2
4
2
3
2
3
1
2
1
1
1
0
1
 

Tennis Scores in Seoul

  • Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-3 7-65)
  • Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Priscilla HonHon (7-5 6-4)
  • Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Sloane StephensStephens (7-64 6-2)
  • Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Peyton StearnsStearns (7-64 7-65)
  • Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-2 1-6 6-0)
  • Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Su Jeong JangJeong Jang (7-64 4-6 6-3)
  • Marta KostyukKostyuk – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 6-1)
  • Carol ZhaoZhao – Dayeon BackBack (6-4 6-1)
  • Yue YuanYuan – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (4-6 6-2 6-2)
  • Heather WatsonWatson – Jia-Jing LuLu (6-4 6-4)
  • Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (7-5 3-6 6-0)
  • Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-4 6-3)

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